Cockroaches

I have noticed that i am having small cockroaches in the kitchen, What works best in getting rid of cockroaches?

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I have noticed that i am having small cockroaches in the kitchen, What works best in getting rid of cockroaches?

The first place to start is a clean home. People may not always *get* roaches from having a dirty home, but they tend to stick around when the eating is good. So to start, make it a rule to never leave food laying about, always keep your dishes washed, vaccuum like a maniac, and keep everything as clean and spotless as you possibly can! Roaches generally do not like to hang around in clean places.

Secondly, you are gonna want to kill off as many as you can. You will find that there are literally hundreds of commercially prepared treatments for cockroach infestation. You also have the choices of professional extermination, bombs, foggers, etc, etc.

One thing to know about all these treatments vs. roaches, is that cockroaches are HIGHLY adaptable insects and can become "immune" or resistant to certain chemical treatments. To illustrate:

Let's say cockroach #1 is living in Bobs house. She's pregnant, and is about ready to have lots of baby cockroaches. Bob decides to spray her and her other roach friends with Raid. The Raid kills off, say, 95% of the population. But cockroach #1 survives, and starts to build up an immunity to Raid. She has her babies, which move to Joe's Apartment next door (yep that was an intentional joke). Being already somewhat immune to Raid, Joe might try to kill them with Raid, but will onlyl kill about 5% of them.

So in summation, the treatment you may use may not work on "your" roaches. You may have to mix and match a few different kinds to get the best result.

Now for the good news.

One treatment that works extremely well on almost any infestation of roaches, is Boric Acid. It comes labled under many different names as roach treatment (frequently is called Roach-Proof), but is always a powder, and is blue or white in color.

After you have finished getting your house super-clean, just sprinkle the roach-proof anywhere you can, along baseboards, doorways, underneath appliances, and anywhere roaches can hide.

Roach hotels do a pretty decent job also if you buy the souped up kinds.

Professional exterminators do a really good job, but are extremely expensive.

Sprays, such as Raid and similar products, don't really do a very good job, and really only work if you can spray a roach directly on the head with it, and even then sometimes it doesn't!

So basically, you want to look at cleanliness, treatment, and further prevention (keeping things clean!). You may have to use several combinations of the above suggestions before the roaches completely go away, but it *is* possible to eliminate them! Best of luck to you!